Thunderwave Sword
Each slash calls lightning down on nearby enemies. Lightning buildup is +6 on Fextralife and +3 on Game8 — a clean doubling, which is the pattern that runs through the whole elemental set.
Transcribed from the published Fextralife and Game8 stat tables
Builds toward a status and can stun. On a drenched enemy it escalates to Jolt. All eight damage types.
- Character
- Emma
- Category
- Sword
- Passive
- Tempest
- Attack
- 51 enhanced (Fextralife) / 21 base (Game8)
- Element
- Electric
- Role
- Lightning buildup
- Where to find it
- Kanto Region, Ancient Civilization Zone — southeast of the Raging River camp. Progress into Chapter 2 and defeat the elite there; Fextralife states it drops a Lightning Stone alongside the sword.
- Applies to
- 17 September 2026 update
When to use it
The first sword that applies a status rather than adding damage, and IGN's weaknesses guide is the reason to care: buildup is how this game's eight damage types actually pay off. An elite drop rather than a purchase, so it costs a fight instead of Amber.
Where it sits in the weapon catalogue
- Its published attack figure is "51 enhanced (Fextralife) / 21 base (Game8)". No other catalogued Sword entry prints that figure, which in a catalogue where seven swords share one number is itself worth knowing.
- It deals Electric, which three other catalogued weapons also do: Fall Thunder, Lightning Arrows and Lightning Bolts. What each damage type actually does is the page that argues the swap.
- Its location puts it in Ancient Civilization Zone, in the Kanto Region — the segment this site indexes as Chapter 2, second of the 13 marked segments after the prologue.
Builds using this
- Thunderwave lightning — BltzZ explains it at 00:00Every slash calls lightning down on a nearby enemy while the effect is up, normally triggered by parrying. Build-up is stated as +6 with the node maxed and the effect as about five seconds. The spelling is the creator’s own, typed into his chapter marker rather than read off captions, and it matches the catalogue record.
Sources for this page
- Fextralife wiki — Weapons index and per-weapon pages — Competitor claim, read 2026-08-05 across all 32 weapon pages it publishes.
What this source gets right, where its transcription is unreliable and what this site corrects is set out in full on the Weapons hub.
The system this belongs to